The Silence: von Falk Richter

In the organizer's words:

Dimitrij Schaad, known from the cinema ("The Kangaroo Chronicles"), performs this touching evening of theater, which has been invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen and the Mülheim Theatertage 2024.

For his autofictional play "The Silence", author and theater director Falk Richter goes back into his own family history. His father died without being able to have a reconciliatory discussion with his son. In a dialog with his mother, he examines truths that have not been spoken for decades, repressed secrets and unresolved traumas. How did the atrocities that his father experienced during the war become inscribed in the family history and in his parents' marriage? How do traumas, silence and violent oppression continue in the author's own relationships?
The confrontation between mother and son becomes a journey into the abysses of West German bourgeois society from the post-war period to the present day. In the play with autobiography and fiction, in the contradictions of their own history, hope also germinates: What forms of relationships exist beyond patriarchal oppression and violence? What could a completely different life look like?

A production of the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz